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Sweden sees ‘heavy and persistent’ snowfall on Saturday

Swedish weather forecaster SMHI has warned of "heavy and persistent" snowfall in parts of the east coast on Saturday with some areas already reporting 25-cm-deep snow.

Published: 19 November 2022 12:42 CET
Tourists walk past a soldier of The Royal Guard outside the castel in Stockholm during a heavy snowstorm.
Tourists walk past a soldier of The Royal Guard outside the castel in Stockholm during a heavy snowstorm. 'Heavy and persistent' snowfall is predicted across parts of Sweden's east coast on Saturday. Photo: SVEN NACKSTRAND / AFP

The wintry weather is expected to spread to many other parts of the country and traffic may also be affected, SMHI said.

This comes after an unusually mild autumn with temperatures as high as 16.7 degrees as recently as November 12th.

“It has been snowing quite a lot,” SMHI’s Therese Fougman told Swedish newswire TT.

An orange warning for snowfall is in place over parts of Götaland’s east coast, where it started to snow overnight on Friday, mainly in an area stretching from Oskarshamn and slightly south.

In an orange warning, there is a risk of very limited accessibility on roads and public transport service delays and cancellations.

On Saturday morning, SMHI reported that the snow was 25 centimetres deep in Oskarshamn, 11 centimetres in Orrefors and 12 centimetres in Hoburg in Gotland.

The snowfall would continue to be heaviest along the east coast at the beginning of the day on Saturday, Fougman said.

However, the intensity was expected to slow down gradually over the course of the evening when winds would also subside. But the forecaster expected further snowfall on Sunday.

Yellow warnings are in place for Gotland, Öland, southern Skåne and parts of the coast of Götaland and Svealand as snowfall is expected to move in during the day on Saturday or overnight. 

A yellow warning means that some public transport services and road traffic may be disrupted. 

“You hope that people think about it: do I have to go out and drive or can I wait? That you think before you go, plan a little, and allow extra time if you are going a long way,” Fougman said.

Yellow warnings remain in place for the whole of Sweden until Tuesday with the forecaster anticipating milder temperatures in the tail end of next week.

Swedish vocab: snö – snow

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According to public broadcaster SVT’s forecast for the summer, there are three possible scenarios for the Swedish weather.

Essentially, a low pressure front is expected to move in across the west of Scandinavia, roughly over the UK, while a high pressure front is expected to arrive from the east, over Finland and western Russia, but it’s not entirely clear exactly where these two fronts will meet.

Sweden could end up underneath either one of them, which gives slightly more predictable weather, or between the two, which would give us more unstable and changeable weather during the summer season.

If the high pressure front ends up over Sweden, SVT meteorologist Nitzan Cohen said, then summer could be hot and dry – maybe even very hot in periods, although this won’t necessarily be the case for the entire summer.

If we end up under the low pressure front in the west, then weather would be more rainy and unstable, although there would probably be some periods with hot weather coming in from the east.

In the last scenario, Sweden ends up between the two pressure fronts, with warm weather coming from the east and cold from the west. This is the most unpredictable option, with high temperatures and a lot of rain likely.

You can keep up-to-date with weather forecasts and weather alerts via Sweden’s meteorological office SMHI, whether that’s flood alerts or a risk of wildfire.

You can also keep up to date with any fire bans here.

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